Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 78: Muku Vs Layla

The next morning.....

Sadly for Layla, her idea was pushed to the next day for various reasons. The most important one was that Emily was still out cold, and they didn’t want to leave her out. Also, Elsa needed to settle in a bit more, while the others had basically already thought of what they would be doing for the rest of the day.

The hours went by so slowly for Layla that she felt like time was standing still. But finally, the next morning arrived, and everyone was eating the last of the bird meat. When Elsa first had a taste of it the previous day it miraculously returned her body to how it looked like before she was starved and even got rid of the dark circles beneath her eyes. Along with increasing her agility by 100 points, though she was surprisingly still a lot slower than everyone on the team. It seems unawakened people can never stand up to awakened ones, especially stronger ones like those in Muku’s group. Emily had woken up somewhere in the night after seeing her little sister sleeping next to her; she pulled her closer with a smile on her face and went back to sleep.

The next morning Emily helped Elsa change out of the oversized dress she was wearing. Apparently, when she had gotten some clothes for herself before, she had also gotten some for Elsa just out of habit. Which was super fortunate for Elsa as clothes weren’t so easily available anymore.

"What’s wrong Big sis?" Elsa asked Emily after seeing her constantly getting distracted all morning.

"Huh? Oh, nothing", Emily replied, clearly having something on her mind.

"Thinking about the university incident?" Jade said, shocking Emily on how she got it right so easily.

"No need to be shocked, I’ve known you long enough to at least tell that much. And you really shouldn’t beat yourself up for it, the scum deserved it. You should hear some of the things they did from Elsa when you have the time. Then you’ll know that you actually did a good thing. I’m certain everyone here also agrees with me" Surprisingly for the first time ever, Jade actually spoke in a soft voice as she tried to reassure Emily that what she did wasn’t wrong. And like she said, everyone thought the same, so they nodded while giving Emily reassuring gazes.

"Thank you for trying to make me feel better Jade, everyone. I’ll try to get over it, but for now, we have something to do, don’t we?" Emily expressed her gratitude.

More than feeling guilty for killing the garbage humans, she was worried that the others wouldn’t look at her the same way as before and would be disgusted or something like that. But seeing how they still looked at her the same way, she was glad and most of her worries evaporated. This surprised her as she was certain that the previous her would likely be depressed for at least a year from the thought that she killed people. It seems she had changed more than she’d thought, whether for the better or otherwise, she wasn’t sure yet. Though as long as she had the others, and now with her sister as well, she didn’t care too much either way.

"Oh yeah! That reminds me, so what percentage are you at now?" Hope asked, eyes full of curiosity.

"99%". Emily replied, a slightly prideful expression on her face.

"Sigh, and now they are two" Jade said with a bleak look on her face.

"Hehe. Wait, who’s the other one?" Emily quite enjoyed the current look on Jade’s face.

"Tsk, don’t be so smug about it. I doubt you know the last step you need to do to Rank up like Layla, though," Jade replied while rolling her eyes.

"Oh, so it’s Layla; that’s actually not as surprising as I thought it would be," Emily said while looking at Layla, who was just sitting there, seemingly lost in thought. Probably thinking about the upcoming duels.

"Anyway, congrats" Jade finally congratulated Emily. The others did the same as well.

"Now that that’s all done, let’s go have ourselves some friendly duels before Layla stares a hole through me" Muku spoke right after everyone finished eating. Layla had been glaring at him all morning, and he felt that she might attack him if he kept on allowing for delays to the duels.

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"Audrey, can you isolate this place with a mana barrier, please? Wouldn’t want to attract beasts to us after all" Muku asked Audrey.

"As you wish, master", Audrey replied and immediately started preparing to unleash the barrier.

"Good, thanks for your assistance", Muku replied, ignoring how she was addressing him; he’d asked her why she started doing so, and after her explanation, he could only agree to play along. Though honestly, he quite liked it, just wouldn’t blatantly show it on his face.

A red mana barrier expanded from Audrey and covered an area of about a quarter of a kilometre. They were doing it outside the mansion, just in case the duels damaged the ground.

"Okay, me and Layla will go first. And Layla, don’t forget that this is a spar, so don’t pull out all the stops" Muku gave out the instructions as he and Layla took their positions opposite each other.

"The duel will begin in 3....2....1.....Fight!" Audrey called out. She was the designated referee due to her strength that allowed her to interfere if anything attack seemed too strong for either fighter to handle.

"Frozen...Ahh!" Layla, who was about to cast one of her spells, screamed out after feeling an invisible force grab her. This was the first time she had felt it since Muku had never used it on the girls...other than Jade. So she was surprised by it, prompting the scream. He had carried some of them with it, but they were unconscious at the time so wouldn’t know what it felt like.

"You lose," Muku said while walking toward Layla, his hands in his pockets, clearly not taking the battle seriously.

"Hey!, not fair!. You can’t use your telekinesis! How are we supposed to fight like this!?" Layla lost her cool and shouted out in anger.

"Although I don’t know how that’s logical since you can’t exactly tell your enemies not to use all their abilities. But since you’re willing to break character over it, then we’ll do it like that. I won’t use my telekinesis directly on you then" Muku compromised as he got back into position. He wasn’t expecting the calm and collected Layla to lose it like that.

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"Hahahaha, now she also knows what it feels like". Jade spoke while laughing from the sidelines. She was really enjoying the show. She really liked it when someone else felt the powerlessness she felt when she was wrapped up by Muku’s telekinesis.

"And here I was thinking that Layla’s Shadow Charge was undefeatable and would make this a tough battle for Muku. Yet she didn’t even get a chance to cast warm-up spells. Who knew his telekinesis was so formidable?". Emily said with a wry smile on her face.

"Well, he can literally move a whole building with it, so.... I don’t think it’s too surprising, really". Chloe said with an unmoved face beside her.

"Yeah, Big Brother is OP and undefeatable!" Hope commented excitedly.

"Tsk, so is there really no way to resist his telekinesis?" Jade asked annoyedly after finishing her laugh.

"That’s not completely true. Master and I carried out an experiment before. His telekinesis can’t affect those of a higher rank as long as they surround themselves with their mana. So it can’t be said to be undefeatable" Audrey said from beside them. They were all sitting on chairs they brought in from the house while enjoying the show.

"So, what you’re saying is that he’s basically undefeatable in the same rank?" Jade said with a bleak look on her face. Her hope to one day defeat him had been crushed just like that.

"Well, if you’re fast enough, I’m pretty sure you can at least get away before it reaches you," Audrey said with a wry, trying to console Jade.

"So, only Chloe has a chance then?" Jade said, her expression even darker.

"N-No, I’m sure you do as well....if you push your speed enough," Audrey replied while slightly panicking after seeing how she had actually made the situation worse.

"Well, it doesn’t matter. He’s a higher class than us anyway, so it’s not unacceptable. Maybe the "Divine" part of his class name is for his Telekinesis?" Jade said after her expression got better. She seemed to have resigned herself to her fate of never getting revenge for the spanking she suffered at his hands.

"Hmm, that kinda makes sense actually. I always wondered why his metal would be called divine. I mean it’s strong and all, but that shouldn’t be enough to be called divine right?" Chloe pondered on Jade’s words and thought that it made sense.

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"So, Telekinesis is so rare and strong that it’s called divine?". Emily chimed in while stroking the hair of her little sister lying on her lap.

"Might be so, maybe there’s more to it than moving things. That could be why he hasn’t been able to realise more of his potential. He basically can do anything you can think of with metal after all." Chloe spat out more theories excitedly. The prospect of helping Muku realise his potential interested her greatly.

"Well, that sounds interesting, maybe you should tell him after the duels are over!" Hope said to Chloe.

"What!, why me!?" Chloe exclaimed in surprise, almost jumping off her chair.

"Well, it’s your theory after all. We only mentioned things randomly and you broke it down. After that, we’ve basically just been listening to you," Jade said while rolling her eyes.

"F-fine, I’ll do it" Chloe resigned herself to her fate, though nervously. She didn’t know how she was going to even start the conversation.